What has not been explained to the American people
is the reason why 35,000 Army Reservists and 65,000 National Guard have
been called up. It is to maintain internal checkpoints. It has nothing
to do with the external "War on Terrorism."
All of these people are being trained at the US
Army School of Urban Control at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. CNN actually showed
an urban training mock-up, what they're training on, and what the new Internal
Security checkpoint is going to look like. It was mighty sinister looking.
There was a barrier that went across the road.
To the right was an elevated shed like structure, elevated perhaps fifteen
feet in the air. It had a small second story that was open.
On it was a sign that read "Homeland Security
Internal Checkpoint." There were sandbags and the wooden arm that crossed
the road read "100% ID Checked." Then there was a small shed to the right
with a small barbed wire area behind that.
On this structure was a sign, which read, "All
citizens not having proper identification will be detained. All foreign
nationals will be detained. All citizens who are deemed to be acting in
a suspicious manner will be detained."
At each of these posts there will be six armed
Army or National Guard reservists with M-16's with full field kit. On top
of the structure to the rear, the open structure on top, there's a man
with a machine gun emplacement.
They showed the actual mockup used for training
purposes. They had new uniforms. They weren't in their regular uniforms.
It's a new gray uniform with a gray helmet and a visor so you can't see
their eyes. The only thing you can see is from their lips down because
they said that's "to prevent any retribution" from people who don't like
this new idea.
This uniform looked exactly like the Imperial
Storm Troopers from "Star Wars" except instead of white, it was gray. All
the helmets have little transceivers so they can communicate with each
other. There will be six guards at each internal security checkpoint. And
there's another warning on the inside of the barbed wire enclosure, "Any
detainees attempting to escape will be shot." It was a yellow and red sign
inside the detainment area.
The only person who actually spoke on camera during
this story was a sergeant, an Army Reservist sergeant. You could tell that
he completely disagreed with what was going on. You couldn't hear the question
being asked, but he was looking at the camera and he said, "We're here
to protect the people." Then he put his head down and shook his head, and
you could tell he didn't believe a word of what he was saying -- like it
was some big frigging joke.
Then they showed the procedure they were using
to train these guys. An average American car, like a Ford or a Chevy, drives
up and there's supposed to be a husband and wife in the front seat and
a couple of kiddies in the back. So they drive up to the checkpoint, and
the corporal comes up to the car and says, "May I see your identification,
citizen."
They call everyone "citizen." I swear to God,
I'm not making this up. Then the guy asks for his driver's license, then
something else and something else. Then he says, "Very good, citizen."
There's a spot on the gate that goes across the
road that they had x-ed out. But you could tell what it said because the
sergeant alluded to it. It said, "All citizens are required to present
their National Identification Cards." But they left it blank as a black
spray-painted out spot because the legislation for that hasn't happened
yet.
The big sign on the side of the one and half story
shed with the machine gun nest on top said "Homeland Security Internal
Checkpoint." And now we're all supposed to say, "Hail the Republic."
That's the new mantra. They showed a bunch of
guys being trained at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, probably enlisted and reservists
and such. And they kept raising up their right arm saying, "Hail the Republic."
The sergeant even said that they are duplicating
the ancient Roman Legions salute to Caesar, using the right arm upraised
with the fist. Instead of "Hail Caesar," though they say, "Hail the Republic."
This is what's coming. People don't believe it
or people don't understand it but when 80% of the people support whatever
"security" measures are necessary.
What does it all mean? We all better start worrying
when George Bush starts to play the fiddle.
Congress is supposed to be recessed for the rest
of the year, but they will be giving the Administration extraordinary wartime
authority -- pursuant to all remaining legislation. In other words, they
will simply allow the Administration to act under pending statutes.
They are simply going to transfer to the Administration
emergency wartime power to act under bills, which are still pending, even
though they haven't been passed.
The implication is that we will be under a defacto
state of martial law soon. There are 100,000 military being trained for
these internal security checkpoints.
When they were showing the lines of enlisted and
reserve people being trained in this camp, with M-16s in their hands, I
can tell you I don't think any of them would hesitate to shoot at American
citizens.
I think they're being indoctrinated. The indoctrination
they're going through is obvious. The enlisted people are being told by
the drill sergeant that they are being given extraordinary authority that
"your job is to protect the security of the State at all costs."
There is a direct parallel between the old Soviet
Union and the East Bloc and what we are doing. We are establishing internal
travel restrictions on the American people. We are essentially following
the Soviet textbook.
In the Soviet Communist Bloc, for example, there
were checkpoints in every city. You had to have what's called an "internal
travel visa." You had to have that visa stamped at every checkpoint in
every city. Then they checked you out at every entrance to every city.
Then if you checked out, they would affix a visa stamp and charge you ten
marks for it. It was a real racket.
What will be interesting to see is what kind of
a racket is going to go along with these internal security check points.
In other words, how much of a "toll" are they going to charge?
They're going to have to do something to pay for
all of this and one of the obvious ways to pay for it would be to charge
everyone a one or two dollar "toll."
And this is what we should be looking forward
to - toll booths around the nation. They're not saying this yet, but obviously
in an effort to pay for this, there's going to be some sort of a "security
tax."
Since this system is incredibly cumbersome (having
to stop every single vehicle and check identification) and we've been taught
to be suspicious of driver's licenses because it's so easy to obtain false
driver's licenses, the implication is that national security cards are
the only thing that will eventually be accepted as identification.
The further implication is that in order to accommodate
traffic (this will create traffic jams miles and miles long), there would
be a separate line for those carrying pre-approved internal visas whose
allegiance to the government has already been checked.
The sergeant on the news report said that all
the people involved (100,000 military people) are being forced to swear
new loyalty oaths to the United States.
He just mentioned the government's overall policy,
which Bush talked about last week, that all federal civilian employees
are going to have to take new oaths of allegiance to the "Republic." And
that extends to some members of the military who will be involved in internal
security.
Surprisingly enough all these border checks, you
would think, would be handled directly by the military - or under the auspices
of the military.
They're not. They're under the auspices of "Homeland
Security." What it means is that you have 100,000 troops (reservists and
national guards people) based in the United States, which will be seconded
to the Office of Homeland Security. Their ultimate jurisdiction is being
transferred from the Department of Defense to the Office of Homeland Security.
In other words, the Office of Homeland Security
is gaining a militarized division of 100,000 troops.
It's finally getting some of the liberals nervous.
But it's coming. Day after day, they're showing polls that seventy to eighty
percent of the American people are prepared to approve whatever security
measures are "necessary" to "fight terrorism."
* * *
MILITARY FRAUD DEPT.: According to the Friendly
Colonel, the Redstone Arsenal base commander was chortling over the fact
that the accuracy of the missile strikes in Afghanistan thus far was 37%.
He was actually chortling on how "high" the accuracy rate has been. The
general's exact words were that "the defense contractors will get paid
as long as the things go off and hit the right country."
Also, the Friendly Colonel realizes the reason
the FBI didn't stop all those weapons shipments from Huntsville Alabama
(See previous story http://www.almartinraw.com/column22.html)
What they were doing was pre-positioning materiel
in Pakistan. That leads one to the conclusion which he had already made
earlier - that somebody knew this war was going to happen, possibly as
long as six months ago (May 2001).
In other words, they didn't know specifically
the target, but somebody thought it likely that a "terrorist event" would
happen that would precipitate a response by the US in Afghanistan.
And Where Did the "Mushrooms" Go? (See previous
column http://www.almartin.raw/column32.html) They were intended for use
by US armed forces. In other words, they were pre-staging supplies. That's
where the "mushrooms" (anti-personnel land mines) went. He got an explanation
how these "mushrooms" are used by Special Forces when they are clearing
an area.
When an area is being swept, they drop this weapons
system behind them - to protect their rear and also to prevent anyone else
from re-infiltrating an are which has already been cleared. The specific
use of these mushrooms is in a sweep operation.
When forces sweep an area and they don't want
the area re-infiltrated they leave this passive weapons system behind.
These weapons are principally used in an urban warfare environment.
The only correlation that can be made is that
there would be an attack against the United States of sufficient size which
would warrant a response, hence the predisposition of these weapons system,
like these mushrooms which are under intense international criticism by
an anti-land mine group in London.
The general also said that they're "re-ordering
missiles like crazy - the Cruise and Tomahawk missiles." They are being
reordered and Rockwell is building them as fast as they can. Cruise Missiles
are about $1.6 million each, and the Tomahawks, which are larger, longer
range, more advanced with a heavier payload, are about $3.5 million each.
He estimated that about 300 missiles have been
used so far. It's not big money, but these missile systems are extremely
profitable to build. They have a simple guidance system, a simple conventional
explosive, and the micro-processors necessary for the look-forward view
capacity is pretty simple. All they have to do is not hit the side of a
mountain on the way to their target…
* * *
MEDIA DEPT.: According to a reliable inside source,
all the mainstream media outlets have received a confidential memorandum
from the White House asking that they change the monikers they're using
"Homeland Security" to "Home Front Security." Apparently they believe that
"Home Front Security" sounds more patriotic and less sinister than "Home
Land Security."
They have also asked the media not to show any
more footage of the urban training and internal security checkpoints and
to minimize the coverage of any "future" troop movements within the United
States.
The implication is that when these internal security
checkpoints get set up, there will be a lot of movement of troops, helicopters,
etc. So as not to disturb the domestic tranquility of the people by telling
the people the truth, the government is asking the media to limit coverage
of any domestic troop movements.
All the media will comply because they're all
dying to jump on the government line. MSNBC has in fact changed their moniker
form "Homeland Security" to "Home Front Security." "Home Front" is more
homey sounding and much more patriotic. It strikes a chord with a lot of
people especially older people who remember this being so extensively used
for security measures put in place during the Second World War.
* * *
EDUCATION/ INDOCTRINATION DEPT.: A warning of
note -- Mothers of America beware. Last week during National Patriotism
Day, sixty million American schoolchildren were supposed to stand up and
say the Pledge of Allegiance together.
There was a little known and briefly shown incident
on TV about a teacher in New Jersey. He was a fifth grade teacher who changed
the words of the Pledge of Allegiance from "I pledge allegiance to the
flag" to "I pledge allegiance to the Office of Homeland Security." Subsequently
it was noted that in his opinion children are never too young to be taught
obedience to the State.
It should also be noted that the teacher in question
who professed to be a loyal Vietnam veteran with a flat top hairdo, a Marine
Corps. tattoo on his arm and a Timex watch, and replete with a polyester
tie. He rather looked like some sort of reject for the corner stool at
the local VFW, when he explained that "he never saw a commie he didn't
want to bomb."
* * *
HISTORY OF FBI ANTI-TERRORISM SUCCESS DEPT.: In
1995, pursuant to the first round of "anti-terrorism" legislation a/k/a
HR1701, the FBI was given a special $300 million grant to track down terrorist
assets worldwide.
After a five-year search and an expenditure of
$300 million of American taxpayers' money, they managed to find one bank
account belonging to the Hamas terrorist group. It was in a savings bank
in New Jersey, and it had $17000 in it.
The Treasury Department's current pronouncements
that the terrorist assets they're freezing every day is just so much nonsense.
They're not giving us any details about who owns these accounts or how
they know they're connected to terrorist groups.
One of the accounts they seized in California?
Upon further investigation, it turned out that the account with $346 in
it was in fact the coffee and donut fund for the local Arab American Chamber
of Commerce.
* * *
FREEDOM OF SPEECH DEPT.: Having gone out to the
$8.99 All You Can Eat Chinese Buffet with a bunch of cohorts, we found
out that unbeknownst to us, there was an FBI agent sitting in the booth
nearby. He was there not in an official capacity, but just having dinner
with his wife.
Anyway, we were talking about the new Office of
Homeland Security and what the internal checkpoints were going to look
like and what the new parameters of our new National Identity cards will
be and, of course, referencing George Bush as George "Never Saw a Document
He Didn't Want to Shred" Bush. And we talked about the number of civil
rights that the American people will be giving up in this new campaign
against terrorism.
When we got up to leave, the FBI agent said to
me, "Hey pal, best flap your gums while you can because a year from now
I'll have the power to arrest you for such seditious talk."
He was wearing his FBI badge on the inside to
ensure that he would get his 15% discount at the restaurant.
My pals are all older and they're afraid that
they'll get their Social Security checks taken away from them for hanging
out with me. Then I told the FBI agent that, "Hey, we're just speaking
the truth." And he said, "Like I said, seditious talk."
So remember - the new government mantra is "Speaking
the truth about government misdeeds and abuses of power equals sedition."
AS SEEN ON TV DEPT.: The new checkpoints have
been established and they look just like the mockups that were shown on
TV. There's a large red and yellow placard that says "Homeland Security
Internal Checkpoint." You have to show your driver's license to go through
and you're told that soon even that will not be sufficient.
There was a company of National Guard setting
up an ancillary facility. They had their new gray helmets with the visors
on, so you couldn't see their eyes. And it is true. We went through the
checkpoint.
